Arthaus Musik
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Their musicianship is certainly refined: check out the suave phrasing lavished upon the famously naive melody in the third movement's trio. Yet there is robust lustre too...For all that Welser-Most... —
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Special offer. The Art of Patrice Bart - La Petite Danseuse de Degas
Clairemarie Osta (The Little Dancer), Dorothee Gilbert (The Etoile Dancer), Mathieu Ganio (The Ballet Master) & Jose Martinez (The Subscription Holder)
Corps de Ballet de l’Opera national de Paris & Orchestre de l’Opera national de Paris, Koen Kessels
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Reimann, A: Die Gespenstersonate
Hans Günter Nöcker (Der Alte), Martha Mödl (Die Mumie), Horst Hiestermann (Der Oberst), David Knutson (Der Student Arkenholz), Gudrun Sieber (Das Fräulein), Donald Grobe (Johansson) & William Dooley (Bengtsson)
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie & Ensemble Modern, Friedemann Layer, Heinz Lukas-Kindermann
Aribert Reimann's chamber score for Strindberg's far-out Ghost Sonata fantasy is sensitive and excellently performed. —
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Special offer. The Searchers of the Grail
Parsifal | Indiana Jones | Adolf Hitler
Plácido Domingo (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Kirov Orchestra and Choir, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Tony Palmer (director)
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Special offer. Classical Music and Cold War
Musicians in the GDR
Featuring artists and contemporary witnesses like Helmut Schmidt, Peter Schreier, Kurt Masur, Theo Adam, Otmar Suitner, Jochen Kowalski, Christine Mielitz, Siegfried Matthus, Walter Felsenstein and many more.
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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Flavio Oliver (Giulio Cesare), Elena de la Merced (Cleopatra), Ewa Podlés (Cornelia) & Maite Beaumont (Sesto)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Gran Teatre del Liceu, Michael Hofstetter (conductor) & Herbert Wernicke (stage director)
Arias from Rinaldo, Orlando and Tolomeo pop up in Wernicke's witty, sexy, stylish production. Pathos, bathos, a singing severed head and a crocodile combine to great effect. —
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Special offer. Weber: Missa Sancta No. 1 'Freischützmesse'
Krisztina Laki, Marga Schiml, Josef Protschka & Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Lucia Popp, Doris Soffel, Horst Laubenthal & Kurt Moll
Bamberger Symphoniker & Chor der Bamberger Symmphoniker, Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Horst Stein, Rafael Kubelik
